Chapter Thirty-Four: The Adventurer's Backpack
Gulu Village, is a village under the direct jurisdiction of the lord of Logge City, there are more than 100 farmers in this village, each farmer has several farmlands to plant, here is one of the main sources of food in Logge City, every autumn harvest season, the soldiers in Logge City will go down to the village to collect grain, the farm here will dedicate half of the amount of grain planted to the city lord every year, leaving only half for themselves to maintain a year's life, if there is surplus, the city lord also allows them to sell freely, but the money from the sale must also pay half to the city lord as a taxγ
They said goodbye to the tavern and came to Gulu Village, he was not fooled by the owner of the tavern to get any mercenaries to draw 10 times, one reason is that he really has no money in his pocket, and the second is that the non-mainstream soldiers are too wasteful, and now they can't guarantee that they can survive with him.
He asked Pan Cheng to go to a clothing store to buy a cloak with a lip collar and put on a new cloak, making sure that the lower half of his face was tightly covered before he dared to go in together. In Gulu Village, the villagers are farmers on the farm, they carry their tridents, go back and forth to their respective farmlands, and from time to time you can see some farmers pushing a small cart of wheat to run out in a panic, and from time to time you can see a few farmers pulling an old cow to their own house.
A troop of horsemen galloped from afar, passing by the two men, and the peasants gave way to the knights, and he heard the peasants' conversation.
"Did you hear that, Shell Village was in ruins overnight. β
"Of course I know, this is a big deal, the city lord has already transferred three cavalry teams to Shell Village, and this is the fourth. β
"I don't know who did it, but this kind of unconscionable thing can be done. β
"No, the lord of the city has not slept well for several days in a row for this matter, and I heard that His Majesty the King has issued several royal decrees to condemn him. β
"Whoever did it, just don't affect us. β
They went to a grocery store in the village to see if there was anything in the grocery store that could help him replace the hemp bag, after all, carrying a sack on his back when he was away from home was very important to his image.
The arrival of the village's grocery store owner, a middle-aged, bald fat man who wore old-fashioned glasses and wrote notes on a booklet with a quill, quickly stopped what he was doing.
Bai Quanyu put one hand on the counter and asked, "Boss, do you have some weight-bearing props in your store?" β
The boss said, "Oh!", and said, "You want a traveler's backpack, we have it here, this backpack is very suitable for you explorers on the go, it can reduce the weight of the items you pick up by 10 times and the size of the backpack by 10 times, many soldiers in the city come to me to buy this backpack." β
"That's great. When Bai Quanyu heard this, his eyes lit up, it turned out that there was really such a reliable load-bearing tool, and this trip to the grocery store was really the right one.
"Still. β
"But what?"
"But something happened in Shell Village in the past two days, most of the soldiers in the city went to Shell Village to hunt for treasures, and these people robbed my traveler's backpack yesterday, so there is no stock in the store for the time being, and I have to wait for the caravan from the imperial capital to come over in 20 days before the goods can be provided to you." β
"No!" he never expected this backpack to be so popular among these soldiers.
The grocery store owner said, "If you must buy a weight-bearing item, we also have a high-end adventurer's backpack here for you to choose from, but because the backpack is so expensive, even some famous nobles in the city look down on it, so it has been stored here for many years." β
He thought about how much treasure he seemed to have in his sack, so no matter how expensive the price was, there was still room for negotiation, so he asked, "No matter how expensive it is, I am very interested in this, can you tell me more about it?"
"Yes sir, this backpack was originally from a hero from another country, but that hero encountered some economic crisis back then, so we pawned this adventure backpack here, this backpack has the ability to reduce the weight and size of the picked up items by 50 times, and it has a name called 'Mirror Orb' inside it Magic device, so it can mirror and overlap the same items in the backpack, so that the same items you get during your trip can be stored without taking up space in the backpack. In other words, if you pick up an oak shield while traveling, as long as the oak shield and the one you pick up behind you are more than 80% close in structure, no matter how many oak shields you put in your backpack, they will shrink to the point that they will not affect your movement, and they will only always count the weight of one oak shield for you. β
"It turns out that this backpack is also inlaid with a mirror orb! No wonder people in the city can't afford it."
The grocery store owner put on his glasses and nodded: "In other words, this adventurer's backpack is a superb primary hero backpack, and the mirror orb in it alone belongs to the primary treasure, and this orb has successfully hit the weight-bearing backpack, so its price is originally very high."
He also knew that the probability of success of an ordinary item was very low if it was to be marked with a heroic treasure, so he was also mentally prepared. In ancient times, when people used the Piercing Orb to build a ballista, it took dozens of failures to get one, and the materials of those dozens of failed ballistas were generally invalid. Then this backpack must have been accumulated after the failure of dozens of backpack materials, and it is possible to succeed this one, and because of this, it seems how rare this backpack is.
"Boss, how much does it cost? The reason why he was so confident to let the boss show the price was nothing more than that his hemp bag also contained 10 primary treasures, of which 1 was a magic orb and 9 were penetrating orbs, and these orbs were the hole cards that made him a monopoly in a second.
The grocery store owner hesitated for a moment before slowly spitting out a number: "5 gold coins." If you want it, sir, I'll give you 5 gold coins. β
"5 pieces! Are you sure?" Bai Quanyu was overjoyed, according to the price of the non-mainstream soldier's deed of sale given by the owner of the wine house in front of him, 5 gold coins was only the purchase price of 5 3rd order soldiers, as far as he knew, a 3rd order ballista was worth more than 10 3rd order knights, and he didn't know what the price of the ballista was, but the price of 10 3rd order cavalry was 10 gold coins, so he could conclude that the primary treasure was at least 10 gold coins.
The boss was also very helpless, this backpack was originally pawned to him when the valuation was 10 gold coins, at that time, in order to raise these 10 gold coins for the pawn hero, it can be said that he borrowed loan sharks all over the city, and even knocked on the door of the city lord's house for a few days. He thought that after getting this backpack, he would be able to sell it for a higher price, but later he found out that although everyone wanted this backpack, no one could afford to buy it, and the value of 10 gold coins was even timidity for some barons and viscounts in the city.
Bai Quanyu was overjoyed for a while, and he didn't think too much about it, so he took Pan Cheng to a corner of a room, handed over all the 8 penetrating orbs in the sack to him, and asked him to take them to the pawn office in Logge City, the reason why he didn't give him all 9 orbs was because he wanted to keep one for his own use.
After Pan Cheng set off, the grocery store owner enthusiastically entertained him to live in his own home, which was a noble person who could save his shop, so he was afraid that he would suddenly have some thoughts and run away. It took Pan Cheng a total of 3 days to and from Loge City, he was not familiar with the road when he entered the city for the first time, and he did not ride a horse, so he consumed the time on foot, but after Pan Cheng came back, he did not bring the money back, but conveyed to Bai Quanyu the amount of money exchanged at the pawn office.
Pan Cheng returned the sack that Bai Quanyu handed over to him, and said: "My lord, the wardyard is black-hearted, our 8 penetrating orbs they only used 1000 silver coins to collect, if it weren't for the fact that the clubhouse was garrisoned by some knights, grandpa kicked his belongings away." β
"1,000 silver coins! Originally, the lowest price of his prediction for the orb was 10 gold coins, but he didn't expect that the people there would actually suppress his prediction price by a hundred times, not to mention that Pan Cheng wanted to kick them, he wanted to run over and smoke them.
Pan Cheng asked, "Because the price is too low, I am afraid that you will blame me if I make a move, so I brought all the orbs back." β
Bai Quanyu patted him on the shoulder and said, "You're right, one orb can make a third-order ballista, so its price should definitely not be lower than an ordinary third-order soldier, so these people in the club are liars." β
"It's just that we don't go there to pawn, I'm afraid that no one will be able to put away these few orbs" Bai Quanyu turned around slowly, and finally decided: "I thought of it, in addition to the pawnshop, we can also go to a place." β
Pan Cheng raised his head and looked at him, on this continent, the difference between the rich and the poor people using coins is only silver coins and copper coins, if it involves gold coins, even people in the royal family can't figure it out casually. The price of heroic treasures was unusually high, and it was not something that civilians could get their hands on at all, and he couldn't think of any place to pawn such treasures other than the Empire's fair pawns.
"Black market!" Bai Quanyu said two words.
The black market is an underground trading club on the mainland, specializing in the purchase of all kinds of illegal materials and treasures, and the purchase price given by the black market acquisition items is also the closest to the original market price of the items, there is a book in the White Spring Library, which is specifically described, and it also writes the location of hundreds of black markets in Tianlong, of which the nearest one is in a divination camp on the western outskirts of Logg City.